Re: how hard is it to gather crystalsIt's like every other mat where you get per press of X, it's mindblowing they made shard gathering so annoying. Imagine if RMT weren't around to bot the crap out of them, they'd be even more expensive.There are ways to increase your crystal yields but not by much, those stacks of 1000 shards you've been buying would take hours to farm up yourself even if you went to the best spit for it (the dye areas).

So CT's getting a lockout of 1 item per week. "That's really stupid" was my reaction. Yoshi actually said people should rotate content...in a game that has almost purely vertical progression. I honestly have no idea what they're thinking other than "artificially lengthen content as much as possible", which will probably just serve to frustrate people.

Re: how hard is it to gather crystalsIt's like every other mat where you get per press of X, it's mindblowing they made shard gathering so annoying. Imagine if RMT weren't around to bot the crap out of them, they'd be even more expensive.There are ways to increase your crystal yields but not by much, those stacks of 1000 shards you've been buying would take hours to farm up yourself even if you went to the best spit for it (the dye areas).

So CT's getting a lockout of 1 item per week. "That's really stupid" was my reaction. Yoshi actually said people should rotate content...in a game that has almost purely vertical progression. I honestly have no idea what they're thinking other than "artificially lengthen content as much as possible", which will probably just serve to frustrate people.

its a piss poor way to mask the fact the game has very little end game progressive content. CT was going to be the way people gear up alts and run things with fc members you rarely get to do anything with. I don't mind a loot lockout if it was sensible, but a week is freaking ridiculous. I went from excited about crystal tower to meh. Can't run it as fc or alliance raid, can't farm for alts. As it stands it would actually be easier/better to gear an alt with myth gear which is higher item level then CT then actually do CT for alts, maybe use CT for accessories but that is just about it. That is if you are geared enough on your main to have that luxury. 18 weeks of stretching content is what they hoping for, which is when 2.2 if they are on time (lol) will probably be out.edit: Square Enix said 2.2 would be released in 3 months . I added 1 month and a half as the Square Enix tax.

As it stands it would actually be easier/better to gear an alt with myth gear which is higher item level then CT then actually do CT for alts, maybe use CT for accessories but that is just about it. That is if you are geared enough on your main to have that luxury.

Sort of what I was thinking. One item per week is an odd decision. Coil doesn't have this restriction and they're raising the myth cap/increasing ways to get myth tomes. It almost seems easier to keep gearing your main that way, and do CT in hopes of occasionally getting something useful for your main or can use on an alt. But fully gearing a main in CT.. not happening. I'm already working on getting AF+1 stuff.

Not that I won't do CT regardless, it'll be something new and a way to get tomes.

Yeah, it's actually easier to gear up i90 between myths, coil, and the new Primal Quest that also has a weekly lockout. SE logic on full display. I was never too interested in the drops from CT myself as well, I just wanted new content to play in. In that regard, the fact that I have to trust to the DF to find 16 non-stupid people is a really big turn-off. I don't mind new players that are willing to listen and learn, but I do mind the regular people you run into DF who don't know the pointy end of the sword isn't the one you're supposed to be gripping. At least there's going to be a kick function of some sort but I still don't know the specifics of that so I'm betting it's something dumb like you can't use it if you queue with a group, or it needs 23/24 people to vote yes so you'll always just have people joining in pairs to annoy the whole group.

I'll do CT, don't get me wrong. I am just really disappointed in almost all the changes they did to it. Most of them to artificially stretch getting loot out of it as long possible, in a most likely brain dead easy item level 55 instance. Cause if it isn't THAT easy the DF thing will probably kill the interest in CT faster then the loot lock out.